23 November 2011

Last year, Techdirt reported on the approval
by the European Parliament of the Gallo Report, which calls for
harsher enforcement of intellectual monopolies. Although the Report has
no legal force, it's important, since it functions as a framework for
future legislation in this area. And now the eponymous French MEP
Marielle Gallo is at it again, with her new "IP Forum":

About Me

I have been a technology journalist and consultant for 30 years, covering
the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995.

One early feature I wrote was for Wired in 1997:
The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was.
My most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business.